Updated patterns!

I'm in the process of updating my old patterns, particularly the bibs, to include charts. I'm rewriting some of the directions to make the patterns even easier and including alternative methods for beginning the bibs and for making the ties. Look for these patterns in the sidebar to see which ones have been added. It's a slow process, but eventually, they'll all be there!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Round Two

I've been trying to write this post without sounding like a complete idiot, but alas, I don't think there is any way to avoid it. I am what I am. Remember the last pattern I posted "Gobble". You know, the one I personally knit three times! Well, sure enough, Ann contacted me and found a couple of errors. How could that happen....again??! Very easily it seems. Fortunately, they are pretty obvious errors (except to me!). The pattern was originally written with seed stitch borders, but then I decided it would be a faster knit with garter stitch ones. The right shoulder decreases, however, still had the old seed stitch instructions. You'd catch that, right? Anyway, it's been corrected so if you downloaded the pdf, you need to grab the corrected version.

I have a brand new pattern that I was going to post next week, but after this debacle, I need to re-think it.

On a more positive note, here are some funky new socks I made for the boys. It's a new kids yarn from Regia called "Flusi".That's a picture of the sock monster on the label along with Marty's socks. He's too young yet to tell me what his favorite color is, but I'm hoping it will be red (or my favorite, green). Mickey, however, loves blue so he gets this pair:Older brother Jack's favorite color is pink. His second favorite is orange. When I saw the pink and orange colorway in the yarn, how could I resist? Unfortunately, my camera wouldn't take an accurate picture of the color, but here they all are lumped together.

The pattern for the pink and blue socks is the Easy Basket Weave socks from Kathleen Taylor's new book. I did a flap heel with the garter stitch gusset, as I'm just not too crazy about short row heels. Marty's blue and red socks are just a generic pattern with a knit 3, purl 1 pattern. Super simple. All of these came with me on my trip to Maine, and I knit a little on each one as I was staring out at the Atlantic Ocean with Nubble Light in the background! It was nice to have a pattern written by someone who knows what she's doing.

3 comments:

Oh I just love the pretty orange and pink socks!! What EXCELLENT taste Jack has and you can tell him I said so if it would please him! (grins) How do you manage to find time to knit so much Elaine!! You've done a lovely job on the Gobble Bib and I can't wait to cast on for it!

About the Free Patterns

Contrary to what my little grandsons believe, I am not infallible. I have tried very hard to make these patterns as accurate as possible, but I’m my own test knitter (most of the time). If you should decide to make one of these patterns and you find a mistake please, please, let me know. On the other hand, if you make one and don’t find any mistakes, I’d appreciate knowing that too!! If you need to contact me, you can email me at wapikiya at verizon dot net or visit me on Ravelry, where I go by “cloverlaine”.